A German satire website recently titled "Revolution on the web: Scientists create program to solve Captchas humans are unable to solve!" Somewhere down the article read: "We hope to make the web more accessible for the visually impaired with our contribution".

I was wiping some out each day, but they keep coming day after day. I'm a bit worried that individually deleting them I may delete a normal user's post.There will probably be more in some days unless we've banned enough IP addresses and get lucky.Thanks, Quintus. We will have to see if maybe FluXy can look into captchas eventually.

Whelp, that took awhile. Did quite a bit of pruning myself. I count about 30 names I just wiped. Gotta be careful when numbers are these high, though. It's easy to accidentally delete a legitimate user in these circumstances.

Thanks, Luiji. I'm tied up and can't really do many deletions right now. I usually try to at least ban a spammer if I see them posting to "stop the leaky faucet".

I think Quintus is able to delete all posts for a user using admin access (which really helps when a bot posts 30+ entries), but he of course is very busy himself.

I messaged FluXy on this a bit back. Maybe if we found a pHp coder (or expert on this kind of forum system) who knows how to implement an anti spam bot fix for this, he/she could help FluXy.

It's kind of funny because I implemented an optical character recognition technique for a computer vision class once using a technique that was intended to beat captchas. These days captchas have to be really good to thwart spammers. My professor described the OCR technique as being well designed but "not very useful" -- this is evidenced by the number of spam posts we have...

As some of you may have noticed, we have lots of mysterious posts showing up from "Daniel Vodo" on the forum summary pages, but no posts for him show up in the actual forum postings. Quintus tried to delete all of this spam bots postings (200+) using an admin feature, and it crashed with an out of memory error. Thus Daniel Vodo and its (appropriate pronoun for a useless spam bot) posts were deleted, but records in the change history on the forum summaries are still showing up.

The solution to wipe Daniel Vodo from a given forum posting is:1. Create a junk reply on the respective forum posting2. Delete that reply.3. Double check - Daniel Vodo's change record on the forum summary should be gone. This forum posting should now sort properly by last modified date in the summary view.

I'll probably clean some of them up slowly over time with this procedure, but it may be some time. Having a messed up sort order on the forum overviews is annoying...

The most recent post shows up in each major forum category. If you just deleted 90+ posts one by one, we might consider asking Quintus if you could have admin rights some time soon so that you can delete a group of posts for a user.

When this thing goes down, its a sunk ship. Unless Fluxy shows up again.

I think a "debris" covered war zone is a better analogy...Take a look at all the "DanielVodo" spam references in the forum overview pages -- some can be eliminated by making a post and deleting it, but some cannot. They will be there...FOREVER...

When this thing goes down, its a sunk ship. Unless Fluxy shows up again.

I think a "debris" covered war zone is a better analogy...Take a look at all the "DanielVodo" spam references in the forum overview pages -- some can be eliminated by making a post and deleting it, but some cannot. They will be there...FOREVER...